The Silent Fight: Walking with Lupus

This episode starts with random Hip Hop facts and ends with a powerful walk beside warriors battling Lupus - including one of the 10% of men who live with it.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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content that we got going down with the podcast. You know,
we start every episode with three of the most useless facts.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
You'll never need ever a day in life.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
So let's kick it off, and today's theme, it's hip
hop up. First, did you know the Sugarhel Games rappers
Delight wasn't the first rap song. It's just the first
mainstream hit, the first recorder rap songs. King Tim the third,
it's called Personality Jot in like six minutes and fifteen

(00:57):
seconds long of Brud just spitting the balls.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
He was from Harlem and apparently he hooped too. King Tim.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
The third Personality Junk was released by the Fat Back
Band earlier in nineteen seventy nine than the sugar Hill Game.
Your second useless fact hip hop is the only genre
to turn a park into a landmark.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
You can go to fifteen twenty Sedgwick Avenue right there
in the Bronx That where Dj cool herked through the
very first party that birthed hip hop. They were like
twenty five cent to get in and now is recognized
as a cultural landmark. And your third and final useless fact,
did you know that Snoop Dogg has a Guinness World
record for making the largest gin and juice?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
In twenty eighteen, he made a five hundred liter cocktail
in honor of the classic hit.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Gin and Juice. Those have been your three useless facts.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
The sugar Hill Games rappers Delight was not the first
rap song, just the first mainstream hit. Hip Hop is
the only genre to turn a park into a landmark,
and Snoop Dogg has a Guinness World record for making
the largest gin and juice. You know, we just had
our ram Alumni weekend for Winston Salem State University. It's
a dope time where alumni get to come together in

(02:09):
the spring, sort of the counter to get together we
do for homecoming in the fall. And I'm pretty sure
somebody probably got a gin and juice on the bar crawl.
The bar crawl is off the change, four different bars,
just mobbing from bar to bar in a big group,
so we end up at one big hub at the end,
turned up and toe down. But we don't just party
for RAM Alumni weekend. We also have acts of service.

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See the motto at Winston Salem State University is enter
to learn, depart to serve. So that Saturday, before we
got to the bar crawl round eleven am, the fourth
Quarter Foundation and Seymour Entertainment put together the Loopers Walk
so we could raise some awareness for Loopers.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
And there was just so much about Loopers that I
didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know.
I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
I didn't know. I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Not heard of lupas before, but I didn't really know
about Loopis. During the Loopers Walk, I walked with my
friend seven, she lives with it every single day, and
I walked from my bro Trail, the visionary behind the
Loopers Walk. What's interesting about Trail living with lupus is
only ten percent of Looper's patients are men. Trail represents
a powerful and rare face in this fight. So some

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quick facts about loopers. It's an autoimmune disease. Basically, your
immune system, the thing built or protect you, turns on you.
It attacks your healthy sales tissue, even your organs. That
can mean fatigue that doesn't go away, swollen joints, chest pain,
hair loss, kidney problems, and it often shows up with
a facial rash shaped like a butterfly, but not always.

(03:51):
That's why they call it a silent killer, because it
hides it mimics. Sometimes it takes years just to get
the right diagnosis. I didn't know, maybe you didn't either,
But ninety percent of the people diagnosed with lupis or women,
and in particular, it impacts black women at a much
higher rate. But those ten percent, the men, like my

(04:12):
bro trail. They're in a quiet, uphill fight that most
people don't even recognize. But let me tell you what
I saw this past weekend. I saw strength, community, joy,
people walking, laughing, breathing hard. That might have just been
me breathing hard, but we were lifting each other up,

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not just surviving, but living. Listen, if you got a
friend that's battling a silent illness, lupus or anything else,
show up for him, ask questions, walk with them because
being seen, being heard, that's part of the healing process too.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I